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In October 1924 Asa T. Bales, a millworker from Missouri, filed a patent for "a sack, the cloth of which is adapted to be used for dress goods after the product has been removed or consumed." [6] Bales assigned the patent to the George P. Plant Milling Company of St. Louis, Missouri, which by 1925 were manufacturing Gingham Girl sacks. [6]
Corn dolly. Corn dollies or corn mothers are a form of straw work made as part of harvest customs of Europe before mechanisation. Scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries theorized that before Christianisation, in traditional pagan European culture it was believed that the spirit of the corn (in American English, "corn" would be "grain") lived ...
The value of cotton lint has been decreasing for sixty years, and the value of cotton has decreased by 50% in 1997–2007. The global textile and clothing industry employs 23.6 million workers, of which 75% are women. [61] Max Havelaar, a fair trade association, launched a fair trade label for cotton in 2005, the first for a non-food commodity.
Also, flower petals were thrown in ceremonial fashion over people who were carrying the ears of corn. [13] Corn was rather essential to Aztec life and thus the importance of Centeotl cannot be overlooked. It can be seen from countless historical sources that a lot of the maize that was cultivated by the Aztecs was used in sacrifices to gods.
An ukay-ukay (Tagalog pronunciation: [ˌʔuːkaɪ.ˈʔuːkaɪ] oo-ky-OO-ky), or wagwagan (Ilocano pronunciation: [wɐgˈwaːgɐn] wəg-WAH-gən) is a Philippine store where a mix of secondhand and surplus items such as clothes, bags, shoes and other accessories are sold at a more affordable price. Items commonly sold at ukay-ukay's are imported ...
History of hide materials. Humanity has used animal hides since the Paleolithic [clarification needed], for clothing as well as mobile shelters such as tipis and wigwams, and household items. Since ancient times, hides have also been used as a writing medium, in the form of parchment. Fur clothing was used by other hominids, at least the ...
Meanwhile, a Facebook page devoted to Glass Gem allows growers to share pictures of the vibrant corn variety. But the story behind Glass Gem is just as remarkable. It begins with one man, Carl ...
Cotton production is a $21 billion-per-year industry in the United States, employing over 125,000 people in total, [1] as against growth of forty billion pounds a year from 77 million acres of land covering more than eighty countries. [3] The final estimate of U.S. cotton production in 2012 was 17.31 million bales, [4] with the corresponding ...